Women between Part-Time and Full-Time Work: The Influence of Changing Hours of Work on Happiness and Life-Satisfaction

Vanessa Gash, Antje Mertens and Laura Romeu Gordo ()

No 268, SOEPpapers on Multidisciplinary Panel Data Research from DIW Berlin, The German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP)

Abstract: This paper asks whether part-time work makes women happy. Previous research on labour supply has assumed that as workers freely choose their optimal working hours on the basis of their innate preferences and the hourly wage rate, outcome reflects preference. This paper tests this assumption by measuring the impact of changes in working-hours on life satisfaction in two countries (the UK and Germany using the German Socio-Economic Panel and the British Household Panel Survey). We find decreases in working-hours bring about positive and significant improvement on well-being for women.

Keywords: Temporary Employment; Unemployment; Health (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I10 J41 J64 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 39 p.
Date: 2010
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-bec, nep-hap, nep-lab and nep-ltv
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